Avolites drives Doha museum installation
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The video projection aspects of the project involve a series of ‘Art Films’, which were produced by the Doha Film Institute (DFI) in collaboration with handpicked directors and videographers, to immerse visitors in a journey through Qatar’s past, present and future aspirations. The projections cover a vast area, co-created by RES, MAN Enterprise / EMPTY Joint Venture and the DFI.
“Avolites Ai is always our go-to software for demanding projects like this - the AIM Codec and Salvation Engine are both powerful and reliable,” says Mark Calvert from RES. “My colleagues Dave Green and Trey Harrison were of course the architects of the original source code for the Ai software, so we are very familiar with what it can achieve when a project needs to go big.”
The Avolites Ai Q3 servers and custom-designed 8K servers are feeding more than one petabyte of movie data to 112 Panasonic 4K projectors, which are beaming the content onto curved interior walls of the museum, known as the ‘cinematic display zones’. The data is shared via 50.6km of 3G SDI cabling and each video requires full motion image resolution as high as 25K by 4K, to cover more than 33,000 sq.ft. of space. The huge quantity of AV equipment, is controlled and monitored by HIVE, a bespoke software package designed by HIVE Media Control.
Avolites' sales director, Koy Neminathan, says: “We are of course thrilled that our latest Ai server, the Q3, and our Ai Miami Licences, are in use on a world-class project on such as the National Museum of Qatar. The Q3’s slim form belies its cutting edge, powerful engine which is designed for rock-solid reliability and sheer pixel processing power and we can see this is use now in Doha.
"We'd like to thank RES and everyone involved in creating the world's largest permanent video projection installation for showcasing what Ai can do on a mammoth scale."
Designed by architect Jean Nouvel, the National Museum of Qatar is located on a 1.5m sq.ft site surrounding the existing Fariq Al Salatah Palace, which had served as a museum of heritage since 1975. It opened to the public in March 2019.
(Jim Evans)
